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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has attacked the lifting of a ban on Vietnamese poultry and shrimp exports into the European Union (EU) because of concerns about the use of controlled antibiotics. MEP’s accused the European Commission of acting in haste, without adequately checking whether controlled nitrofurans were still being widely used by Vietnamese shrimp and poultry producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has attacked the lifting of tight import restrictions imposed on Vietnamese poultry exports into the European Union because of concerns about the use of controlled anti-biotics. MEP’s accused the European Commission of acting without adequately checking whether nitrofurans were still being widely used by Vietnamese poultry producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Vietnam have struck a new textile and clothing trade deal. Until 2005, the EU will increase the size of Vietnam textile and clothing export quotas by between 50 and 75 per cent, generating Euro 200 million of trade opportunities and boosting Vietnamese exports to the EU by 25 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Vietnam have struck a new textile and clothing trade deal which would give the south east Asian country increases in European Union (EU) textile and clothing quotas worth Euro 200 million a year. In return, the Vietnam government has pledged significant tariff reductions in the sectors, along with other liberalisation commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has authorised the European Commission to open negotiations with Vietnam on updating the 1992 EU-Vietnamese Bilateral Agreement on Trade in Textile and Clothing Products, which was last amended in 2000.…

BY MARK ROWE
A VIETNAMESE food processor has invented an odourless variety of fish sauce in attempt to crack the American market where the smell of fermented fish is disliked. The Hanh Phuc Food Processing Company in Ho Chi Minh City has already sold 100,000 bottles of odourless sauce worth US$50,000 to the United States.…

BY STEVE BAILEY, in Hanoi, Vietnam
WESTERN restaurateurs are opening businesses in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, and formerly the centre of a communist dictatorship that refused to allow foreign ownership of local companies and partnerships.

A string of western-owned restaurants, many under French control, have opened in the historic old quarter near St.…